In 1876, Riverside Cemetery served as Denver’s primary resting place for the prominent and influential, the unknown and unwanted. The cemetery grew out of the 19th century movement toward the creation of landscaped rural-type. Photograph of a red sandstone headstone for Geo. Speicht who died in 1904 and Grace Speicht who died in 1893.

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